It's a little bit of a toss-up for me. I'm a Liberal, but I do like to stay balanced in my everyday life. Even though I technically agree with a lot of what "woke" people say, I still have a visceral reaction to listening to them talk. It makes me want to get away from them and go talk to normal people. I often have to watch what I say around my Liberal friends & family.

That said, I also have a deep-down reaction to ignorance. Especially when it involves science. When I hear somebody spouting off nonsense, I can almost hear myself saying "Um, actually..." before it comes out of my mouth. I think it's because I've spent most of my life studying science and then practicing it professionally. When I hear someone being willfully dumb about it, it comes across as them telling me I don't know how to do my job. Even though I know that's not necessarily the case, that's how I feel and it's a difficult thing to get over. I guess you could say I'm defensive about it.

I also fundamentally believe that science and technology is one of the single biggest factors in the United States' hegemony in the world over the past 50 years or so, and that the anti-science culture we've created through the institutionalization of ignorance will be one of the biggest factors in our decline, as well. While there's plenty of ignorance of science in Liberal ranks, unfortunately Conservatives have to-date born the majority of it.

Both differently, but the one I dislike more is conservative ignorance. Day to day, liberal wokeness probably causes me more annoyance, because I run into it more and because someone "on my side" saying something dumb is in a way more annoying than someone not on my side saying dumb shit. However, at least wokeness is actually trying to do good, even if it's in a misguided/irritating way.

Conservative ignorance causes a lot more harm, even death, something you can't say about liberals being a bit too touchy about how you should or shouldn't act/speak.

Both because being liberal ‘wokeness’ can be cringey and see the person as someone unable to listen to other ideas, conservatives can be also close-minded and hurtful to new ideas. I been in both sides and I know how toxic both can be, so i rather be on my own.

Progressives tainting the left are far more insidious enemies than any conservative could ever dream of being.

Classical liberalism needs to make a very firm comeback, with very ridgid stances on freedom of speech and *getting money out of politics*.

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This is just my anecdotal experience. I give talks on certain topics and almost always find that conservatives these days are much more willing to talk to me even though I'm mostly liberal myself. But I can count 4 separate times when liberals showed some form of indignation towards me where i felt unsafe.

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A conservative never tried to force me to pay half my wage in taxes, liberals did, conservative never have gave millions of my country’s tax dollars to a terrorist for killing an ally soldier, liberals did, conservatives never tried to make laws giving certain demographic groups extra rights in the name of “multiculturalism” liberals did, I’m not a conservative but they are a wayy lesser evil than liberals

I wish it was legal to strip either of those fuckholes from their voting rights. I’m all for free speech and shit, but if you’re too stupid to be any sort of reasonable, you’re literally ruining everything for the entire country